About 90 minutes before the start of what could be his team’s last game of what’s been arguably the most challenging season in NBA history, Orlando Magic coach Steve Clifford spent some time talking about something not related to basketball.
Clifford was asked about what discussions the team has had about the recent shooting of Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man, by police officers in Kenosha, Wis.
“The first thing that hit me was are we comfortable living in a country where this happens over and over, and we don’t do anything about it,” Clifford said during his pregame media session ahead of Game 5.